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[did you miss the part where it's the positive assertation which has to prove itself?]

And did you miss the part where you've yet to prove that? You claim that a positive assertation must prove itself. Yet provide no proof that such is the case. And please don't insult us with some "self evident" argument.

udsuna, Eyes on Final Fantasy 30 Comments [9/24/2006 12:00:00 AM]
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Submitted By: Raistlin
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#82783
Murdock

Ah...wha...bu...*brain shuts down*

9/24/2006 11:12:33 PM

#82786
Libkitten

Around and around we go, where we stop... ow, my head :(

9/24/2006 11:15:15 PM

#82792
Wolight

I'd say something but this does a good job making fun of itself.

9/24/2006 11:28:19 PM

#82802
Rysith

Oh yeah? Prove that he needs to prove that positive assertions need to be proven!

Then, leave and don't come back until you are ready to stop being a moron.

9/24/2006 11:45:23 PM

#82804
Sandman

Seriously, Udsuna needs to be beaten. That is the most irritating form of \"I know you are, but what am I?\" I have ever seen.

9/24/2006 11:46:10 PM

#82818
dykitty

You are on a gaming board. Shut the fuck up.

9/24/2006 11:56:30 PM

#82823
WritingIsMyReligion

Okay, so now we're debating the basic rules of logic and debate....

Fucking WEIRD.

9/25/2006 12:01:15 AM

#82828
Papabear

OK, I'll insult you some other way. You're a moron.

If the ones asserting the negative have the responsibility of proof, then every mindless assertion ever made must be considered true until proven false. Space aliens who look just like humans have taken over Sweden. Mars is a giant rock and dust covered onion. Bigfoot exists. You're an idiot. Well, that one has been pretty well wrapped up, I guess.

9/25/2006 12:05:25 AM

#82849
Mister Spak

\"And please don't insult us with some \"self evident\" argument.\"

You mean like the self evidence of the existence of your sky fairy?

9/25/2006 12:51:18 AM

#82861
Napoleon the Clown

Invisible Pink Unicorns exist. Prove me wrong.

9/25/2006 1:09:31 AM

#82871
Archangel_Lucifer

Please no more! My brain hurts enough.

9/25/2006 1:35:34 AM

#82876
Hadanelith

Around and around it goes, where it stops, everything dies.

9/25/2006 1:40:53 AM

#82891
DrunkMonkey

Fine. I now positively assert that Jesus is a boy-hungry pedophile that also likes to fuck goats while he feeds on aborted fetii. It is a positive assertion, so you need proof to disprove it.

9/25/2006 2:48:48 AM

#82896
Old Viking

udsuna was the star of his elementary school debating team.

9/25/2006 3:06:35 AM

#82925
Julian

Old viking - only because he was 25 and beat them up.

9/25/2006 5:15:06 AM

#82941
Redhunter

Udsuna needs to be charged with 'assaulting a brain with intent to harm'.

9/25/2006 6:00:40 AM

#82968
james

This is interesting. Fundies ignore logic all the time, but I've never seen anyone actually criticize it directly.

9/25/2006 6:46:20 AM

#83006
Raistlin

Is there a \"Logic Redefinition Award\"?

9/25/2006 2:37:29 PM

#83009
David D.G.

This is incredible. It's not enough that fundies redefine words in the language to win every time; now they're redefining the very rules of logic itself to maintain that \"heads I win, tails you lose\" position.

The final step, no doubt, will be the complete redefinition of reality itself, such that atheists, agnostics, pagans, Muslims, Jews, and all other faiths and sects will be redefined as \"Christians\" in order to claim ultimate victory in having converted everyone -- a masterstroke!


~David D.G.

9/25/2006 3:04:12 PM

#83018
EkR

I'd love to see this guy in court.

Judge: \"You have been charged with murder. How do you plead?\"

udsuna: \"How do I plead? I'm not saying anything until you prove to me that you have to prove that I did it.\"

9/25/2006 3:15:51 PM

#83027
Matilde

Double standard award.

9/25/2006 3:26:14 PM

#83048
John

Unfortunately, these kinds of word games can't be won by either side. The whole issue of religious verifiability has been beaten to death by people a lot smarter than Udsuna.

The philosopher John Wisdom told a parable of a garden that had been abandoned for years but appeared perfectly tended. One person said there was a gardener, while another insisted there wasn't. They gradually added more and more tests to discover the gardener's identity, but they all failed. The one who believed in the gardener gradually was forced to add more and more assumptions about the gardener to account for the negative results: the gardener must be invisible, intangible, undetectable, etc.; to the point where the gardener's existence was no longer verifiable by any earthly means. In the end, neither could conclusively prove the other wrong. But adding ad hoc assumptions certainly makes an argument less believable to an impartial judge. I suspect that nothing will change Udsuna's beliefs though.

9/25/2006 4:27:04 PM

#83065
xMinionX

If your need for proof is that bad, then why the belief in a god?

9/25/2006 5:52:53 PM

#83098
MILF-chan

udsuna makes my head hurt =(

9/25/2006 9:38:12 PM

#83226
Scott

Round and round and round he goes, where he stops, nobody knows!

9/25/2006 11:32:01 PM
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